Be Naughty and Stay Up Late for Daylight Saving Time
This Sunday marks the beginning of Daylight Saving Time, which is the only thing on Earth that’s worse than the Oscars. The start of Daylight Savings is when we “spring forward,” so this is the bad one where you lose an hour of rest. At 3:00 am Sunday night (or Monday morning) it will actually be 2:00 am again.
If you’re dangerously sleep-deprived like me and, apparently, Elon Musk, you might want to go to bed early before things get even worse. But neither I nor Elon will do that, and you shouldn’t either. Are you seriously going to miss this weird magical extra hour? That second 2:00 am is party time, baby, AKA time to be on my phone.
The surest sign that our society has collapsed is that most people agree that changing the clocks sucks, but our government can’t get its act together to end the Daylight Savings Time madness. We’ve fought revolutions for less. Remember back in 2022 when the Senate voted to stay on standard time? The House couldn’t make it happen. I got fully Charlie Browned on that one, I really thought it was going to be different this time. Apparently there’s disagreement from lawmakers, but it breaks down by region, not political party.
